Unrepentant IRA terrorist presents a BBC television program about Jesus

More evidence that you can't be a satirist anymore: According to Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail:

Who would be the most unsuitable person in the whole world to introduce a television programme about Jesus Christ? One would be hard pushed to come up with someone worse than Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, and former member of the Provisional IRA.

Yet, believe it or not, on Sunday evening this man with blood trickling from his hands will present an hour-long Channel 4 programme about Jesus, part of a series called The Bible: A History...

...At one stage he reads from the Sermon on the Mount, in which Christ emphasises the virtue of forgiveness and peacefulness. But instead of reflecting that he has himself committed an awful lot of extremely unpeaceful acts for which he might do well to seek God's forgiveness, Adams merely says: 'Bad things have been done to me. I have to forgive those who did them.' Not much thought, then, for the people to whom he did so many bad things.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for Herr Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, to excommunicate this thug any time soon; after all, John Paul II refused to excommunicate any IRA terrorists.